Just finished Outerwilds. Next up is Wagatobi to help practice my Japanese before a trip in a few months.

I need to open my mind a little more. I never saw that first move as an option.

My guess is that the “next generation” of PC gamers will be getting the next generation of consoles instead. Hopefully that doesn’t also mean that we stop getting PC ports of the good console titles.

I’m only 1100 rated, and haven’t checked with an engine.

My guess is that after 10. … qd7, 11. Bxf7 gxf7 makes the king too vulnerable. If you had played 10. … ng6, then you could take with the queen and 11. Bxf7 isn’t as strong. Your pawns can stay unstacked and play can continue

Who buys them?

Play Nice by Jason Schreier mentions that the “Pay to Win” style of monetization is very popular in Chinese markets.

I’d wager that, since other markets strongly oppose that, public companies focused on profits over player sentiment needed to find a middle ground. (That dichotomy is the main focus of the last half of the book)

We revolted when Battlefront 2 had loot boxes at the center of game progression, so companies hoping to make the most money in both markets need to make the purchasable items either purely cosmetic or only helpful in early game progression (starter packs).

Oof. This one feels like an insult that a DM might take personally before realizing it was meant for the NPC

Some of them are ISPs. I’ve received mail from both Verizon and AT&T about getting a 5G Internet “connection”. It just connects to the cell towers.

Someone came by so I demoed one and it was awful. The latency was, predictably, unhinged.

Yeah, but I suppose it might be for the people who are botting

I love that AMD is comparing this to the 7900 GRE. That was the card that I bought, and I just assumed that everyone else forgot about it.

The CEO of Framework said that this was because the CPU doesn’t support unsoldered RAM. He added that they asked AMD if there was any way they could help them support removable memory. Supposedly an AMD engineer was tasked with looking into it, but AMD came back and said that it wasn’t possible.